1999-03-17 Charter Commission Minutes

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HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER COMMISSIONPage 26 of 104 getting to and from and office, you know, so I don’t have a problem with it. RAY: Okay, what -? Kevin. BALOG: I think the secretary will evolve into a part-time position, but part of what we talked about at the last meeting was trying to get the files from the last -, before I get mis-quoted. HERKES: The last Charter Commission. BALOG: One, two, well, two or three or four Charter Commissions all in one place, categorized, and if we need to go in and reference down the charter, what was changed in each Charter Commission, it would be at our fingertips in trying -, instead of trying to call someone like Mr. Wurdeman and him tell us I don’t know nothing, call this person, I don’t know nothing. So I think what Marni’s saying is true. In the beginning, it might well be more strenuous job, so you’re going to need someone who has filing skills and someone who knows -. HERKES: Research skills. BALOG: Yeah, research skills. And then also somebody who is able to have computer background, and they can do it from their own house and have a number that they can just call in and leave messages. But in the beginning, I honestly feel it’s going to be a lot more than 19½ hours a week. So I think we should just lay out what Marni is saying, what we’d like them to do, and then put that out and let the people apply according to what -. HERKES: Yeah. BALOG: We want done. HERKES: I talked to Rudy about the files. They’re in the basement of the County building, and there’s room to work in the basement. He agreed to set up a table down there and a light and things. I have not gone down there. I just haven’t had time to go down there and look at what it looks like, but he said there is room to work down there, and that’s where the files are. So I think that if we find somebody that’s skilled in research and we give them the right questions, they can go find the information for us. RAY: Yeah. Let’s assume they do that and they do a good job. Let’s make sure that the next Charter Commission doesn’t have to do all that again. BALOG: Yeah, that should be the -, well, that’s what I mean. That should be the goal, because it was represented that the files are in three different places at the last meeting. RAY: Yeah. BALOG: So if they are, we want to get them all in one place. HERKES: Yeah. BALOG: And everything up to snuff and -. RAY: Or at least all the summaries and -. file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 3-17-99.html7/1/2011